I didn't see any threads on the blues elsewhere, and it's way past due to have its own.

Who are your favorite blues artists? Favorite blues recordings and styles? Keep the recommendations comin'.

I'll start with a killer of a Delta blues album, Robert Belfour's Pushin' My Luck. A gritty sexy piece of perfection that any blues lover shouldn't do without. Belfour has been playing live since the 1960s but only recorded since the late late 1990s.Epitaph & Fat Possum have released an album each, both gems, especially Pushin' My Luck. The title track, "I Got My Eyes on You", "Stayed Awake" and "Sweet Brown Sugar" are my top favorite tracks.

whoa, if I get started I won't be able to stop.

lemme think about this.

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Originally posted by rockthief:
whoa, if I get started I won't be able to stop.

lemme think about this.

I was hoping you would see this thread, rockthief. Don't worry about not stoppin', a blues thread should never end.

Curtis Salgado walked onto the small stage and set his harmonica case in front of him on the floor. He was warming up the crowd for John Lee Hooker. By the end of the night I thought if heaven was this good then I could die right now.

Another time Junior Wells was in town. He was sauced when he started playing. Even tho he played "Dust My Broom" several times I was still pleased. I worried about the guy, tho. How much cognac can a guy drink and still remember more than two songs?

Been listening to Luther Allison's Bad News Is Coming cd today. Excellent, forgotten 1973 release from the Chicago bluesman. This '01 reissue features 4 bonus tracks that are as good as anything on the main album. Most of the tracks are covers- "Evil Is Going On", "Cut You Loose", "Dust My Broom", "Sweet Home Chicago"- though Luther adds some funk of his home to a number of these songs. The energy and the soul is what keeps this blues album vital. Too bad it got lost being on Motown back in the day. Well worth diggin' up this expanded reissue.

folks don't realize how much music is based in the blues. The Beatles studied it although the did not play it much that I know about. The Blues is seminal music. It has given birth to countless forms of music, but I love it the best.

Try Debbie Davies for some good basic, right on blues.

You might like Javina Magness, rockthief.
A couple downloads here- Javina Magness